Browse-and-switch: Retail-online competition under value Uncertainty

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1129-1145

  Balakrishnan, Anantaram ^a   Sundaresan, Shankar ^b   Zhang, Bo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Maximus Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

channel switching; multi channel competition; retail pricing; showrooming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904723195     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12165     Document Type: Article

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